Neon knight flier Hyperbeat looks like a stylish mash-up of Rez and Osu! | Gaming

If you’re a fan of rhythm games and fun bops, then you might want to bookmark ol’ Hyperbeat. Set in a wireframe world, you’re to chop, dodge or ride notes as you slam your “hyperknight” through a tunnel at high speed. There’s a subtle, dreamy story element to your musical journey, with confusing dialogue and a nice cherry blossom tree. Hmmm, curious. Anyway yeah, it looks rad.

I’m sure rhythm game fanatics will say Hyperbeat looks like many other rhythm games. For me, it’s a bit of a mash-up between Rez, in which you you float through a stylised, polygonal world, and Osu!, in which you click or hold or follow circular beats as they pop-up on screen. In Hyperbeat you do a bit of both, determined by the colour and shape of the beat you’re about to collide with. It looks…